3 III PROCEEDINGS IN THE REPARATIONS PHASE 3. On September 13, 2000, in furtherance of the Court’s decision in operative paragraph nine of its judgment on the merits, the President of the Court (hereinafter “the President”) decided as follows: 1. To grant the representatives of the victims or, if appropriate, their next of kin, a period until November 13, 2000 to present their arguments and available evidences for the purpose of determining reparations and costs. 2. To instruct the Secretariat of the Court to transmit all the received briefs and evidences to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, once the period referred to in the above paragraph has expired. 3. To grant the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights a one-month period, starting on the date it receives the aforementioned briefs and evidences, to submit the comments it deems relevant to the subject of reparations and costs. 4. To instruct the Secretariat of the Court to forward all the submitted briefs and evidences to the State of Peru, once the period referred to in the above operative paragraph has expired. 5. To grant the State of Peru a two-month period, starting on the date it receives the briefs and evidences referred to in the above operative paragraph, to present its comments and available evidences with a view to determine reparations and costs in the instant case. 6. To summon the representatives of the victims or, if applicable, their next of kin, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the State of Peru, once the written procedural stage has concluded, to a public hearing, at a date that shall be informed in due time. 4. On November 9, 2000, the victims’ next of kin petitioned the Court seeking a 40-day extension on the time period the Court set for submission of the reparations brief. 5. Following the President’s instructions, on November 13, 2000, the Secretariat extended the time period given to the representatives of the victims’ next of kin to January 5, 2001. 6. The representatives of the victims’ next of kin filed their reparations brief on January 5, 2001. With it they provided a power of attorney wherein the victims’ next of kin named María Claudia Pulido and Viviana Krsticevic, from the Center for Justice and International Law (hereinafter “CEJIL”), and Ronald Gamarra Herrera, from the Instituto de Defensa Legal [Legal Defense Institute] (hereinafter “IDL”), granting them general powers to represent them in proceedings before the Inter-American Court. 7. On February 9, 2001, the State informed the Court that Mr. Patricio Marcial Rubio Correa had been designated as agent for this case. 8. The Inter-American Commission submitted its brief on reparations in the present case on February 10, 2001. 9. On April 17, 2001, the State petitioned the Court seeking an extension for presentation of its observations on the reparations briefs. On instructions from the